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September 2016

scallop_insetEight more people have been confirmed as victims in a Hepatitis A outbreak in Hawaii.
The outbreak, traced to frozen scallops imported from the Philippines and served raw at Genki Sushi restaurants on Oahu and Kauai, has sickened 284 adults. Onset dates of their illnesses range from June 12 through Sept. 16.
As of Wednesday’s

Adamf-Farm-SlaughterhouseAdams Farm Slaughterhouse, LLC, an Athol, Mass., establishment, is recalling beef, veal, and Bison products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.The raw intact and non-intact beef products originated from animals slaughtered on July 15, 25, and 27, 2016 and August

lascassas_1474587675464_46779574_ver1.0_640_480News Channel 5 reports that Tennessee state health officials investigated a Salmonella food poisoning outbreak that sickened potentially dozens of people in Middle Tennessee.

The Salmonella illnesses emerged after a fundraiser for the Lascassas Fire Department fish fry on September 10th in Rutherford county.

More than 400 people attended the event at the station on

raw-milkThe Pueblo City-County Health Department, El Paso County Public Health and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment are jointly investigating an ongoing outbreak of Campylobacter infections linked to raw milk from Larga Vista Ranch in Pueblo County. The agencies are warning consumers that drinking unpasteurized milk can pose severe health risks and there

eggo_leggo_white_shirt_popKellogg Company announced Monday it will recall approximately 10,000 cases of Eggo Nutri-Grain Whole Wheat Waffles after they were possibly contaminated with the bacteria listeria.

Kellogg announced on its website that no other Eggo products are impacted by the recall, which is being done voluntarily.

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in

486258140_XSSeveral states, CDC, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are continuing to investigate a multistate outbreak of foodborne hepatitis A. Information available at this time does not indicate an ongoing risk of acquiring hepatitis A virus infection at Tropical Smoothie Café’s, as the contaminated food product has been removed as of August 8.

ucm517585The Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources 7 (BFAR 7) has suspended the operations of a Cebu-based seafood exporter after scallops were linked to a hepatitis outbreak in Hawaii. BFAR 7 initiated an investigation on the operations of the company, which includes a thorough “contract tracing” of their products.  The company, which is based